Jean Dehénault

Jean Hesnault (or Hénaut, Dehénault, d'Hénault, de Hénault), 1611–1682, was a French poet, libertine in morals and thought, friend of Molière and Chapelle.

In addition to his original production, he translated Latin poems with a materialist tendency (beginning of De natura rerum by Lucretius, chorus of the second act of the Troade by Seneca... ).

Editions Œuvres diverses..., Paris, 1670. Dialogues ou Entretiens..., Rouen, 1709. (Same content as the previous edition.) Pieces published in various collections. Œuvres, ed. by Fr. Lachèvre, Paris, Champion, 1922. Some poems of Hénault can be found in Alain Niderst, La poésie à l'âge baroque, Paris, Laffont, coll. Bouquins, 2005, pp. 767–774.